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Apple, if you don't want to support old apps, let people build apps with APIs that are actually forwards compatible and designed with thought. The web! And no,
by randyrand 5y ago
Apple, if you don't want to support old apps, let people build apps with APIs that are actually forwards compatible and designed with thought. The web!
And no, not some web view wrapper app. A legitimate web only app.
iOS is 15 years old now! It's pretty bad engineering to make breaking changes 15 years in a row. If they can't create a stable subset of their platform by now, will they ever have the competency to design something stable?
Meanwhile, a website from 20 years ago will still run just fine.
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- etchalon 5y agoThe idea that web APIs are designed with thought is counter to my lived experience as a person who's been building websites for 20 years.
- randyrand 5y agoThe early apis less so, but the modern apis are planned for months to years in advance, with many design iterations.
- rezmason 5y agoThe software written for the earliest versions of iOS are now basically lost to history. The software people run on iOS today will probably last for even less time. Decades from now, people will have virtually no insight into what it was we did on our phones all that time. In comparison, the archived web will survive as long as someone maintains some version of some browser. In the future, people might wonder why the mobile web was so limited on iOS. What they'll observe is the afterimage of the native apps whose APIs received Apple's attention instead, for all the good that will have done.